Pratt Industries to Install Metso Automation Technology at Valparaiso
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Pratt Industries, Conyers, Ga., USA, has selected Metso (Finland) automation technology for the new PM 16 packaging paper production line at its 100% recycled paper mill currently under construction in Valparaiso, Ind., USA. Once completed in the first quarter of 2015, this mill will be the world’s most technologically advanced and environmentally friendly mill.
"This mill will be a showcase of 21st Century recycling technology, which will result in the best performing recycled paper on the market," said Anthony Pratt, chairman of Pratt Industries. "At capacity, the mill will save the equivalent of some 20,000 trees and divert up to 3,500 cubic yards of waste from landfills every day. That’s enough trees to cover almost 15 football fields and enough waste to fill 90 garbage trucks every 24 hr."
Metso’s delivery scope to the site includes a Metso DNA automation system and a Metso IQ quality control system equipped with a Metso IQ Dilution Profiler for a dilution headbox and a Metso IQ Moisturizer system for moisture profiling. The deliveries will take place in 2014.
Pratt Industries is fifth largest corrugated packaging company in the U.S. and the world’s largest privately-held 100% recycled paper and packaging company, with more than 4,400 highly-skilled, green-collar employees. Pratt was founded in the U.S. some 25 years ago and today has production facilities in more than 20 states.
